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Lets do a little Math
Reading the preliminary report, a couple of things struck me.
Radar showed it doing 171 KTS at 600 MSL, 188 degrees from the reported wind.
KBLM is at 153 ft, MSL. So, he was 447 feet AGL.
Presumably, he was descending, and building speed when radar track was lost, because reports are that he was about 50 AGL, or 203 MSL.
At 171, with 7 kts of head wind, he was doing, and I know this is simplified, but he was doing 204 MPH IAS. I remember when Herb put his winglets on, that he had to remark the air speed indicator, because the winglets had a VNE of 201 MPH. So, before he got down on the deck and going really fast, he was already exceeding the VNE for the airframe.
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